Cockmongers of the Vindication Battlegroup

The Lady Cranky Tank

lol thanks for the help now get the fuck out of my instance

Way to leave right before a boss in VH. Heaven forbid you have to deal with people who recently dinged 80. I know VH is SO HARD to heal, especially when we’re still keeping up with portals and no one has even come close to dying yet. Fuck you.

Congrats, Coldsin, you’re the only decent person I pugged with all weekend. Rehabilitate, you’re a douchenozzle. One of these days you’re going to run into mobs with your impatient darting ahead of the tank, and I hope they let you die. Please spec out of disc so that you don’t shame my kind anymore.

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of the same thing recently in the Dungeon Finder. It started off great, but has really declined this week. I’ve had people leave Violet Hold as soon as they lock the doors, which is fun. Have you seen the PUG bingo cards?

This will get worse before it gets better, I think. Right now the situation is: healers and DPS not only expect tanks to carry them, they expect the tank to pull the entire instance so the run can be over in fifteen minutes or less. If the tank can’t or won’t do either, the tank is “bad” and abuse is heaped upon them. The tanks, meanwhile, stop using pugs the minute they can, and before that start despising their fellow groupmates before they even meet them, leading to prima donna and overall pissy behavior that make the “entitled nerdraging tank” phenomenon.

What worries me is that this is what a lot of fresh 80s who have never had an 80 are experiencing in exactly the content that’s meant to teach them how to do their jobs in a group. What are they learning?

Oh, and as an aside, the older normal instances don’t seem to be like this. Everybody is still learning, so people have much more realistic expectations.

I knew something was wrong when, most of my guild being away on holiday, instead of working for the badges I still need on my main, I hauled out and pug-tanked on my rarely-used level 30 bear just because that was so much more fun for me…

Warrior Tank: Stop shielding me
Me: Why?
Warrior Tank: It makes it harder to keep aggro
Me: So you get aggro by taking damage? Somebody better tell all the other tanks they’re doing it wrong.
Warrior Tank: I can’t generate rage if I’m shielded
Me: You’re maintaining 100 rage (which probably explains the aggro issues). How much more do you need?
Warrior Tank: Don’t worry about it bro, I’ll just click it off from now on
Me: *leaves party*

I’m on a Vindication Battlegroup server as well, although Horde-side. And I gotta say Alliance looks more talkative. If a Horde player leaves its without saying a word. Unless I get the jerks who pick on the others.

And theoretically, on rare occasions, we also have an @Orithea! On less rare and more wordy occasions, we also have a James. Who does not have a Twitter because he is fail? Anyway, there had to be some bubbles in this blog somewhere.